Construction Contracts Manager Careers

Work Environment:

As a construction contracts managers, you'd assist to get building and renovation contracts, and administer projects throughout to its accomplishment, maintaining them in budget and on time. These contracts can comprise rail engineering and road works, business office-developments or public sector housing redevelopment.

Being a construction contracts manager, you may be liable for a particular big contract or several small contracts. You'd also be the major position of contact for construction contractors, site managers and customers all through the lifespan of a project.

Your major duties would comprise:

• meeting customers to obtain a complete idea regarding their requirements
• formulating and representing documents for contracts and tenders
• assisting with work, planning, and meeting contractors, providers and project teams
• providing information to solve problems if they occur
• composing estimates, with timescales and budgets
• collecting all data together for reporting at the completion of the project
• recognizing fields for improvement within present contracting procedures
• approving any extra work which has to be completed in defined timescales

Qualification, Education and Experience:

Usually, you'd require a backdrop into construction management or engineering, or experience of dealing with contracts to gain entry to this profession. Work experience into quantity surveying or construction site management might also be allowable. If you've experience in project management from different industry fields, you might be capable to utilize this to enter in the construction area.

Then again, you can begin as a contracts administrator or assistant with a construction firm, advancing to construction contracts manager subsequently getting some work experience.

Academy courses, like degree or BTEC: HND/HNC might assist you to obtain a position in a training scheme of company, as a construction manager or contracts assistant. You must select a course which includes contracts and contract regulation. Related subjects comprise:

• surveying and civil engineering
• building management
• building studies and construction engineering
• construction-engineering management

You'd necessitate a driving license for giving visits to sites and customers.

Training Details:

You'd generally begin on firm's training scheme, if you join a firm as a trainee. These are planned to provide you with experience of every field of the industry, e.g. buying, estimating and planning. When you've gain experience and knowledge, you'd enter in contracts management.

The CIOB (Chartered Institution of Building) has various training schemes which you can pursue to boost your career, containing a Graduate Diploma-Program. They also promote vocational NVQs, such as:

• Third and Fourth levels in Project Control
• Fifth level in Construction Management
• Third level in ConstructionSite Supervision
• Third and Fourth levels in Construction-Contracting Operations

Skills and knowledge:

• a knowledge of health and safety measures
• business awareness
• outstanding negotiation, presentation and communication abilities
• excellent managerial abilities and the capability to administer numerous projects
• the capability to work to meet up targets
• excellent IT and mathematical skills
• outstanding problems resolving abilities
• the capability to build and keep fine working relations
• a knowledge of construction and matters like planning and building laws
• the capability to work by yourself and as member of a group

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Remunerations for construction contracts manager can be around £26,000 to £46,000 a year.
• Annual earnings of superior contracts managers can be above £51,000.

Working Conditions:

You'd usually work weekly for around 36 to 41 hours, on weekdays.

You'd work chiefly within office, although would give visits to sites and customers on regular basis. Few employers might provide chances for travel all through the UK and abroad.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work chances with utility firms, bigger organizations such as main retailers, regional and central government divisions, and companies in the construction business.

By experience, you can advance to consultancy or construction management or be a company-director. There are also chances within support-services, like health and safety assessment. You might be capable to utilize your knowledge and experience of the contracting procedure to enter in other fields.

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